Last week, I attended a writer workshop, sponsored by The Kenyon Review, one of the most prestigious literary journals in the US. As luck would have it, the Editor-In-Chief, a former classmate of my wife, was there to make introductory remarks. During a post-workshop conversation, my wife mentioned to this man that I had been writing Science-Fiction short stories for the past two years. Upon hearing this, his face tightened, and he said, “That’s an interesting genre.” His cool demeanor told the whole story; Science-Fiction was unworthy of discussion in literary circles.

This made me wonder; what is it about SF that offends the literary community , and expanding on that point, how should one value the worth of a piece of writing?

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I finally found a definition that resonated with me. Genre stories always have strong plots, while in literary work, the plots are much subtler, and in some cases, don’t exist at all. So, as a sweeping generalization, to the genre reader, most literary fiction is boring, while literary groups find genre books shallow.